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- From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: Why Don't CDs use Both Sides?
- Message-ID: <2431@shaman.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 23:56:16 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.180028.12198@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1iavn3INN70o@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1993Jan5.202509.28015@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon
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- "wouldn't it be easier just to flip the disk over? Is it
- really that hard to forego the labeling or place the labeling
- on the inner ring. Both sides of a standard CD *look* like
- they could contain data ..."
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- If you start glueing together CDs the way that video laserdisks are
- glued together, you open the door to laser rot. I had yet another
- videodisk rot last month, although it was issued after one of the
- industry's periodic claims that "we've finally licked the rot problem."
- Sigh.
-
- -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
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